Invader Zim - Vol. 2 cover art madness!

Posted by David Lambert

5/23/2004

Last month, in mid-April, we brought you this report about Invader Zim - Volume 2: Progressive Stupidity. In our write-up, we mentioned the controversy that was brewing about the cover art for that release.

It all started a few weeks before that. In late March, Rosearik Rikki Simons (colorist for the show, plus the hilarious voice of GIR) posted at his BLog:

The fact is I'm painting one of Jhonen's illustrations again, this time the second ZIM DVD...It's a very lovely picture Jhonen drew of ZIM simultaneously strangling Dib, Gaz, GIR, Bloaty, Poop Dog, and several others, I can assure you. Ah. I seem to be finished with it now. I really like this image. Nickelodeon is going to hate it.

And here is that art that Jhonen drew, Rikki painted, and - as predicted - Nickelodeon hated: